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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as
a carriage.
A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as
a carriage.
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
